Usually, the structure line location (also referred to as a building restriction area) may be used for outdoors parking and landscaping.

Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable floor area that may be developed on a subject residential or commercial property in regards to the provisions of a statutory land usage scheme. (i.e. the sum of the areas of all floors of a structure on the subject residential or commercial property).

Coverage - a term typically defined in a land usage plan which describes the footprint of a building structure on a subject residential or commercial property, seen from straight above the subject residential or commercial property. In other words, the coverage is a percentage of the land location of the subject residential or commercial property, stemmed from computing such location within the confines of the outer delineation of the footprint of all building structures on the subject residential or commercial property seen from directly above the subject residential or commercial property (i.e. a 40% coverage on a website of 1000m ² will be 400m ² of location covered by buildings).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in preparing terms, this typically refers to the occupational density which may be permitted on a subject residential or commercial property, typically expressed as a variety of house systems per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 units per hectare on an erf measuring 1000m ² will translate into a reliable 2 residence systems that may be set up on the land in question.

DALRRD - Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development. This Department is the custodian of the Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013 (SPLUMA) and the controling authority of the planning occupation.

EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a treatment considered in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which treatment is employed to obtain the authorisation of the relevant environmental authority (either provincial or national), to conduct a specified activity on a subject residential or commercial property as may be managed in regards to the guidelines to NEMA.

FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio usually revealed as a numerical figure (i.e. 0.5) being an aspect that might be increased with the land area of a subject residential or commercial property (normally in square metres), the item of which will specify the gross flooring area that may be erected on the subject residential or commercial property in regards to a land use plan (likewise commonly described as "bulk or bulk element"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when used to a website of 1000m ², will translate into a developable gross floor area of 500m ².

General Plan - this is a SG Diagram showing several erven and streets or subdivided erven or farm parts on a single diagram (or a single set of diagrams).

GLA - in specific land usage plans this is specified as "gross leasable location" or "gross leasable flooring location" or "gross lettable location". Simply put, the location of the structure efficient in being the subject of a lease agreement in between the lessor and the lessee. This will usually omit non-leasable areas of the building (communal passages, stairwells, entrance foyers, utility rooms, etc). Usually, when GLA belongs to a land use scheme, it is typically just pertinent to the calculation of the required number of parking bays to be provided on a subject residential or commercial property.

IDP - Integrated Development Plan as considered in, inter alia, the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). This is the personnel "company plan" of the municipality indicating how it will spend its cash (and where). A spatial development structure illustrates the spatial ramifications of the IDP.

Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land usage scheme might consist of a recommendation to a so-called "line of no gain access to", representing a line (typically along the border border of the subject residential or commercial property) along which no access might be offered to the subject residential or commercial property from the external roadway system. Typically, such lines of no access use to provincial and nationwide roads and higher order roadways within the local jurisdiction.

LUS - Land Use Scheme as defined in SPLUMA 2013 (comparable to a town planning plan).

NEMA - National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998)

Ordinance - might refer to the Town Planning and Townships Ordinance, 1986 (Ordinance 15 of 1986), additionally the Division of Land Ordinance, 1986 (Ordinance 20 of 1986)

PPA - Planning Professions Act, 2002 (Act 36 of 2002).

PI - Professional Indemnity Insurance

Rezoning - a colloquial description of the procedure of addressing the modification of a land usage scheme (or any of its provisions), to alter the land usage rights and advancement limitations appropriate to the subject residential or commercial property.

ROD - a Record of Decision as pondered in NEMA, being the composed decision handed down by an environmental authority, following an environmental effect assessment procedure (it may be favorable or negative).

RORA - Removal of Restrictions Act. There are 2 variations particularly:

• The National Removal of Restrictions Act, 1967 (appropriate to all provinces other than Gauteng). • Gauteng Removal of Restrictions Act, 1996 (Act 3 of 1996) (just appropriate to Gauteng)

R.O.W - this is a servitude and describes a "access". Simply put, it controls gain access to over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (similar to a personal roadway).

RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The principle of taking previous speculative learning into account, regardless of that a person may not hold a certified tertiary qualification in the pertinent field of endeavour.

SAACPP - South African Association of Consulting Professional Planners

SACPLAN - The South African Council for Planners instituted in terms of the Planning Professions Act, 2002 (Act 36 of 2002).

SAPI - South African Planning Institution

SDF - Spatial Development Framework as considered in SPLUMA, 2013 and the City Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). A visual illustration of the forward looking policy of a municipality (its future wanted state of advancement in its location of jurisdiction), being an extension of the local IDP.

SDP - a Site Development Plan. This is a strategy generally specified in a land usage plan which holistically highlights the intended development on a subject residential or commercial property, indicating the position of the proposed structure structures to be erected, access provisions, the arrangement of parking, landscaping, the imposition of structure lines, the position of thralls and associated features. An SDP normally precedes the submission of a building plan.

SPLUMA - Spatial and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township establishment - an incorporated process of converting a residential or commercial property signed up as a farm portion( s) into metropolitan land (a township or suburb) which may consist of partitioned erven/lots/stands and might consist of streets and public open spaces. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties located within the ambit of the township will be afforded land use rights (zoning) to regulate and manage using land as authorized by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this normally refers to the corner component of the crossway in between two roadways, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the real roadway surface, focused on negotiating the turning movement of automobile moving from the one roadway to the other at such crossway.

Servitude - in planning terms, this usually refers to a part of the subject residential or commercial property over which an engineering service (water lines, power line, sewage centers, etc) are routed and where such services are safeguarded by recommendation to a yoke diagram (depicting the area so affected). Typically, thrall areas may not be intruded upon by building structures and the details of such thralls are generally described in a notarial deed of yoke registered in the office of the Registrar of Deeds.
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SG diagram - a diagram approved by the Surveyor General in terms of the Land Survey Act, signifying the limits of a residential or commercial property or a bondage or other acreage. This may consist of a General Plan of a municipality or a subdivided location where multiple erven or subdivided portions are assessed one diagram.

Zoning Certificate - a certificate bied far by a municipality certifying that a subject residential or commercial property on its records undergoes a particular set of land use and development controls (zoning provisions). The certificate will usually confirm the land usage zoning classification under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due reference to development limitations such as height restrictions, protection restrictions, floor area restrictions, parking requirements and the like.